America Wins!

Dean:

Although it is unlikely that this election will devolve into jackbooted thugs and political prisoners, the real danger is precisely where Democrats claimed it was with the Republican "juggernaut" of six years ago. The real danger is at the margins where the potential for a trip down a slippery slope of curtailed liberties and indoctrination of our youth.

Now I do find it ironic that the Right is pretty much saying many of the same things about Obama that the Left said about Bush, and I am starting to see a real rise in what Aziz calls "Obama Derangement Syndrome." This "civilian security force" is an example, I don’t know what Obama may have meant by his much-quoted comment, but putting nuclear bombs, aircraft carrier battle groups and fleets of jet attack craft which can drop bombs down individual chimneys into the hands of some weird civilian “security” force doesn’t seem like a realistic policy position. So he must have meant something else.

I am one of those who is fearful of how far Obama will go in his pursuit of his ideologies, including the potential from him to start prosecuting his political opponents for "crimes" and his desire to turn our educational system into a liberal indoctrination system. I think those are both on the table, and both of those are hallmarks of the beginnings of socialist control of the state. If the Obama administration actively pursues charges against Bush, Cheney and other administrtation officials, I can guarantee you I’ll be looking at higher caliber firepower for my own home.

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jrogge:

We’ll see if you are still laughing in four years.

If Obama makes good on his promises to pursue prosecutions of Bush administration officials, then that is certainly the beginning of the criminalization of policy differences, which is the start of the end of our peaceful transition of power.

I’m glad you can still laugh at that possibility.

It scares the heck out of me.

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By the way, putting partisanship aside for a moment, I do want to take an opportunity to take a deep breath and contemplate the fact that this Presidential election has a black man at the head of one ticket, and a woman at the tail of the other ticket, and if nothing else, that demonstrates more than all the empty promises of my lifetime how much actual progress has been made in race and gender equity in this country in just my own lifetime.

I may not be proud of the ideology my country is voting for today, but I am very proud and happy to see such a thing occur in my own lifetime. Regardless of who wins, and as much as I disagree with Obama’s ideology, I am very happy to see that he and Sarah Palin are ABLE to compete on a (mostly) level playing field.

If nothing else does today, that at least puts a smile on my face.

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jrogge:

Your partisan snipes as you whine about supposed partisan snipes on the other side undercut your supposedly rational argument as well as anything I could say, so I should just let your "argument" speak for itself, but I’ll make a few obvious points in case people read your post and think it’s factual.

Conservatives do not claim that there are no  "media voices" They claim that the "mainstream media" is hard left. There is fair acknowledgement that the Right has a significant, perhaps commanding, advantage in talk radio.

That is seen as a way to OFFSET the advantage of the LEFT in the MAINSTREAM media outlets (NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Trib, Wash Post, Time, Newsweek, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, etc…) As presented so far the "Fairness Doctrine" would only target talk radio, and as such restore the FULL advantage of the Leftist media bias by silencing the only area conservatives have any advantage, while shoring up the areas liberals have always had an advantage. Understand?

Also, the idea that a Democrat led “prosecution” of, say, Donald Rumsfeld for “War Crimes” would be anything but a vicious partisan attack machine is, to say the least, naive at best and disingenuous at worst.

I vote disingenuous.

Believe me jrogge, many, if not most, "conservatives" do blame Bush. We blame Bush for allowing the Left to demonize him and his allies, for attempting to reach across the aisle to mad dogs who did nothing but bite his outstretched fingers and for advancing major additions to the entitlement state which has added even more to the burden of our budget overruns. You better believe we blame Bush for that.

But we give him credit too, for keeping us safe among other things.

Of course I don’t rebut your comments because I expect YOU to listen to reason, but perhaps other lurkers will.

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